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What the "Tiananmen Papers" reveal is that the CCP refused to compromise at every step. During the Politburo meeting held on May 13th, 1989, then-Secretary of the CCP Zhao Zhiyang proposed the retraction of an April 26 editorial in the People's Daily that had defined the student movement as "anti-revolutionary turmoil." The April 26 editorial was one of the two reasons listed by the students for their hunger strike, and it is not difficult to imagine that, had a retraction indeed taken place, the two sides might have arrived at a basis for future compromises. At that...
...Chen's early reports to Deng, for instance, the student petitions were exaggerated and distorted, and were described as "attacks" on key government offices. Later, Li would use the occasion of a visit by Zhao Ziyang's to North Korea as the chance to push Deng to define the student movement, whose words were then used as the blueprint for the April 26 editorial. It seems clear that these actions were all politically motivated, and the student movement was used by Li as a way to attack the reform faction in the CCP led by Zhao Ziyang. Once the protests...
...Tibetan culture itself for keeping Tibetans poor, ignorant and not above suspicion of cannibalism, this sudden interest shows the government's decreasing ability to mold public opinion, and the growing independence of Chinese trendmakers. "More information about Tibetan culture has come available, so more people see its value," says Zhao Jia, a travel executive who next month will release an off-the-track guidebook to Tibet's farthest reaches...
...Zhao shoots back, "But Comrade Xiapoing, it will be hard for me to carry out this plan. I have difficulties with...
...Zhao: "I will submit to party discipline; the minority yields to the majority...